She has recently written for Salon, WNYC, Bustle and Origin Magazine.
On a recent afternoon, the salon was hardly bustling.
The doctor said she needed blood, and the couple -- owners of a hair salon in this bustling tourist town -- saw being able to afford it as a sign of their prosperity.
Most buildings there are well-preserved brick or clapboard, with upscale shops like the Mustard Seed, a gift boutique, co-existing alongside the local pawn shop and the Beehive salon, which was bustling on a recent Friday.
We spent the day at a large church overlooking the town, and then went to his brother's hair salon, which was bustling with his friends, all of them barely twenty, handsome and full of youthful exuberance.
The first attack, a suicide car bomb at near outside a beauty salon near a bustling market in the Shiite Muslim area of Sadr City killed 55 people during morning rush hour and wounded 68.
Today, as on every Friday, a group of Israeli men who were classmates at Balfour Elementary School in the early days of the state gathered at Cafe Lenzner on bustling Sheinkin Street for an informal salon.
Opposite the Skyland site, on Good Hope Road, Carl Williams, 49, a barber at the Like That salon, whose dozen barbers were bustling on Thursday afternoon, had mixed feelings.
"Last week, I was at the hair salon, which is always a bustle of activity, people hollering for hair dye," Ms. Smith recalled.
